Historical DVD & Blu-rays 2012 List

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Even the Rain

Chronicles some of Christopher Columbus' exploits with the indigenous people he encountered in the Americas, circa 1492.
Gael García Bernal, Iciar Bollain, Paul Laverty, Luis Tosar, Carlos Aduviri
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter R

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them.
Anthony Mackie, Dominic Cooper, Robin McLeavy, Tim Burton, Seth Grahame-Smith, Jimmi Simpson, Rufus Sewell, Timur Bekmambetov

Sacrifice NR

Focuses on a power hungry general who wipes out his rival along with his entire family, save for one newborn. The infant is protected by the doctor who delivered him and raises him as his own, hoping to mold him into his own instrument of retribution.
Chen Kaige, Ge You, Wang Xueqi
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Titanic - 25 Year Anniversary PG-13

An epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" Titanic, at the time, the largest moving object ever built.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Billy Zane, Victor Garber, Al Giddings, James Cameron, Jon Landau
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For Greater Glory R

An impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War — the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th Century North America.
Oscar Isaac, Andy Garcia, Dean Wright, Eva Longoria, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ruben Blades, Peter O'Toole, Bruce Greenwood

The Flowers of War R

The story of China's Nanjing Massacre, which involved Japanese troops killing thousands of Chinese citizens in what was then the nation's capital in 1937. Christian Bale will play an American priest called John who helps a great number of Chinese escape certain death.
Christian Bale, Zhang Yimou, Zhang Weiping, Liu Heng

Red Tails PG-13

1944. As the war in Europe continues to take its toll on Allied forces, the Pentagon brass has no recourse but to consider unorthodox options -- including the untried and untested African-American pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, they are given the ultimate chance to show their courage. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies to fight for their country -- and the fate of the free world.
Andre Royo, Tristan Wilds, Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston, Nate Parker, Michael B. Jordan, George Lucas, Anthony Hemingway

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby

Exploration into the life of America's controversial former CIA Director William Colby told through the eyes of his wife and filmmaker son, Carl.
Grace Guggenheim

A Dangerous Method R

Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient in A Dangerous Method. Jung's weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Both men fall under Sabina's spell.
Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel, Keira Knightley, David Cronenberg, Jeremy Thomas, Christopher Hampton, Viggo Mortensen

J. Edgar R

In 1935, J. Edgar Hoover forms the FBI and makes it an efficient crime-fighting organization — in part by harassing dissenters and building secret files on politicians. Hoover also fights the gangster wars in the ’30s and, later, the Mafia. He remains the FBI's director until his death in 1972.
Naomi Watts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Stephen Root, Josh Lucas, Judi Dench, Clint Eastwood, Armie Hammer, Lea Coco